Velasquez: Werdum is ‘two-faced’
For Cain Velasquez, he took offense to recent comments made by Fabricio Werdum and was not open to a handshake at breakfast.
It is inevitable that two opponents will run into each in the course of the week before a fight. But how they talk about each other in the media can definitely can affect the outcome of a how those interactions go. For Cain Velasquez, he took offense to recent comments made by Werdum and was not open to a handshake at breakfast:
One day after Werdum made the comment about the UFC heavyweight champion on UFC Embedded, the two crossed paths over breakfast at the JW Marriott. And when the interim champion went to shake Velasquez’s hand, the the latter wasn’t having it.
“To me it seemed to be two-faced,” Velasquez said at Wednesday’s UFC 188 open workouts at the Interactive Museum of Economics. “Don’t say something insulting to me. Stick to your guns. Don’t come up to me the next day and try to be buddy-buddy with me.”
Velasquez’s comments came after Werdum gave his version of the events.
“Yesterday I saw Cain Velasquez at breakfast,” Werdum told reporters. “I said hi, I shake hands with Daniel Cormier. … When I shake hands with Cain Velasquez he said ‘no, no, I don’t want to shake your hand.’ I said why, he said ‘you talk about me, I don’t like that.’”